Quotes About Negotiation

We have deficits with everybody. Who do we have a positive with?

Building confidence and constructive relations between Sudan and South Sudan is urgent

If you want to say no, be firm and direct.

If you can't beat 'em, cooperate 'em to death!

Lindbergh can deal with Hitler, they said, Hitler respects him because he's Lindbergh. Mussolini and Hirohito respect him because he's Lindbergh.

Grace has its own power, even in international politics.

War does not answer war, war does not finish war. The only ending is peace.

One should never offend more men than one can persuade

it is easier to take a country into war than to bring it to live at peace

You don't make peace with your friends.

We are invincible because we are the conquered, Invulnerable because already dead; We laugh at your missiles. Sit down and bargain Until your tongues are dry. If the havoc and the shame continue We'll drown you in our putrefaction.

Politics, he thought sourly. It was not, as the philosopher Ajencis had written, the negotiation of advantage within communities of men; it was more an absurd auction than an exercise in oratory. One bartered principle and piety to accomplish what principle and piety demanded. One sullied himself in order to be cleansed.

All right, he said. Since you ask so nicely. I wasn't asking. I'm aware of that. The sharp point in my back did make it clear.

No bacon for you. Then no eggs for you. Either of you. Eve glowered at him. Prisoner exchange? They glared at each other, then swapped pans and started scooping.

The Secret tactic of a good hard bargainer is know when to compromise. For instance. I will demand a puppy if I am forced to move to Fiji. But I will settle for a bunny.

The secret tactic of a good hard bargainer is to know when to compromise.

Life is so filled with unavoidable conflict that I see no reason to promote more confrontations.

I took the thirty thousand. Julius paid twenty-nine thousand with a check and gave me a thousand in cash

The miracle was the result of the negotiated settlement. There would have been no negotiated settlement and so no new democratic South Africa had the negotiators on one side insisted that all perpetrators be brought to trial. While the Allies could pack up and go home after Nuremberg, we in South Africa had to live with one another.

Never give anything away for free—but sometimes it pays to oil the wheels a bit.

it was uncivilized to use physical force in order to make your point of view prevail.

Talk to her; persuade her to

Well, I asked him who would start the war first.

There are a lot of negotiators that really will give in on a deal because being understood is more important than getting what they want. And there's a particular type in particular, the assertive negotiator: being understood is actually more important to them than actually making the deal.